§ Viscount Exmouthasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Answer by Lord McIntosh of Haringey on 3 December (H.L. Deb, col. 1367), whether the total cost of £758 million attributable to the completion of the millennium dome includes the cost of internal completion and the setting up 134WA and installation of artefacts designed to provide the "experience".
§ Viscount Exmouthasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the companies that have been or will he contracted to supply the internal exhibits and fittings for the millennium dome will receive any share of the admission charges levied on the public; and if so, what share.
§ Viscount Exmouthasked Her Majesty's Government:
What terms they propose to extend to the commercial sector in order to encourage their participation in the creation of internal exhibits for, and fitting out of, the millennium dome; and whether tenders have been sought to this effect.
§ Lord McIntosh of HaringeyThe New Millennium Experience Company announced on 2 December that they had concluded contracts with the first 10 designers for the large scale exhibition structures within the millennium experience. They are Bentheim, Eva Jiricna Architects, HP:ICM, Jasper Jacob Associates, Land Design Studio Ltd., Media Projects International, MUF Architects, Park Avenue, Spectrum, and Work. In association with the NMEC, sponsors and specialist advisers, these designers are now developing further the design concepts for the experience attractions. I have placed a copy of the NMEC's detailed press release in the Libraries of the House. Since that announcement the company have also concluded a contract with Zaha M. Hadid. These contracts have been awarded as part of the competitive tendering process advertised in the 6 June edition of theOfficial Journal of the European Community (OJEC).